After sending Gao Zhihang away, Zhang Xinghan told Wang Yicai: "Yicai, you immediately mobilize the public security police in the city to protect the lives and property of the elders in Shangyang City. We are now urgently calling on all retired soldiers in the city. Males aged 40 to 40 years old enlisted in the army to expand the military strength, and vowed to defend Fengtian City to the death and fight the Japanese to the death!"

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Wang Yicai nodded happily.

As soon as Zhang Xinghan's recruitment notice came out, it immediately caused an uproar in Fengtian City. Countless Shenyang elders who had been awakened by the fighting last night took to the streets, gathered around the notice, and started talking about it.

"Er baby, you are just eighteen years old this year. Go join the army and don't embarrass me." A middle-aged pork seller in the crowd said to his slightly obese son who was over eighteen years old.

"Dad, if I leave, who will help you sell pork?" the fat boy said with a simple and honest face.

"You are such a pig. You let the Japanese invade the city and you don't steal all our pork. Then we will really be unable to continue selling pork." The middle-aged uncle patted his son on the shoulder and said seriously: "Go ahead. Thirty years ago, when I was your age, I participated in the Xiangyong and fought against old men and young devils. We must let foreigners know at any time that there are no cowards in the Northeast, they are all fucking A bloody man with a handle!"

"Well, I will sign up to join the army later and try to kill as many Japanese soldiers as possible. I will never embarrass you, my father, and we will never embarrass the Northeastern people." The fat boy said with an innocent look.

If a pork vendor behaves like this, you can imagine the reaction of the passionate patriotic youth, students and people from all walks of life in Fengtian City.

All of a sudden, a large number of young and middle-aged people flocked to the recruitment offices set up by Zhang Xinghan in various urban streets. Each recruitment office was overcrowded.

Among them, what Zhang Xinghan didn't expect was that workers from the Shenyang Arsenal, Steel Plant and other military factories went to the recruitment office in an organized manner, resolutely asking to join the army to defend Shenyang and the various industries on which they had devoted countless efforts to make a living. factory.

Of course Zhang Xinghan knew that almost all the workers from these factories in the military industry system could shoot guns. Some of them were even more familiar with guns and weapons than active soldiers. They were a group of reserves who were ready to fight when called upon. manpower.

However, for the sake of long-term plans for the future, Zhang Xinghan personally came forward to persuade the workers to return to the factory to perform their duties and prepare to produce more guns and ammunition for the defenders to directly support the upcoming hard battle.

By eight o'clock in the morning, Zhang Xinghan had recruited about 2,000 qualified recruits in Shenyang City, half of whom were veterans of the former Northeastern Army, and recruitment was still continuing.

In order to cope with the possible attack by the Japanese army, Zhang Xinghan sent 2,000 new soldiers, more than 500 guardsmen of the Guards Battalion, and more than 1,600 cadets of the 11th phase of the Jiangwu Hall who evacuated from Dongda Camp into the city, as well as his 700-3rd Battalion subordinates. , all the three thousand military and policemen left behind by Huang Xiansheng gathered together.

At this time, together with the two thousand new recruits and the more than 1,600 students from the Jiangwu Hall, the number of Zhang Xinghan's defenders in Shenyang City reached nearly 8,000, not counting the soldiers who had just entered the city. *The 7th Brigade Armored Company and Gao Zhihang’s aviation team.

After the troops were assembled, in order to unify command, Zhang Xinghan announced that the eight thousand defenders would be reorganized into three infantry regiments, a guard company directly under the city defense headquarters, a reconnaissance company and an artillery battalion.

The three infantry regiments are all equipped with the standard equipment of the 3rd Battalion, 9th Company and 27th Platoon. However, the number of people in each platoon is over-full, reaching about 600 or 50 people, which is comparable to a full-strength squad of the Japanese army.

To sum up, each of the three regiments has about 2,000 people. The first regiment is composed of Zhang Xinghan's 3rd Battalion as the base, supplemented by a group of newly recruited recruits and students from the Lecture Hall. The regiment is headed by Liu Jianguo, the former deputy commander of the 3rd Battalion.

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The Second Regiment is composed of the Zhang Xueliang Guard Battalion and some military police as the backbone, supplemented by some Martial Arts Hall students as grassroots officers. The commander of the Second Regiment is Liu Guodong, the commander of the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion. As for the most qualified person to serve as the commander of the Second Regiment,

The former deputy battalion commander of the Guards Battalion was transferred by Zhang Xinghan to his city defense headquarters as a combat staff officer.

The reason for his apparent promotion and actual demotion was to keep him out of the way so that he could fully control Zhang Xueliang's elite guard battalion.

The third regiment is composed of a large number of military policemen left behind by Huang Xiansheng and new recruits. The regiment is headed by Wang Yicai, deputy chief of Fengtian Police Station.

As for the guard company, reconnaissance company and artillery battalion directly under the headquarters, most of the members of these three units directly under the ** are current students of the Jiangwu Hall and loyal veterans Zhang Xinghan transferred from the 3rd Battalion, as well as artillery soldiers brought from the Peking University Battalion.

composition.

The reason why we chose to use Jiangwu Hall students to form the guard company and reconnaissance company is because each of them can already be regarded as elite men with both civil and military skills. Before entering the Jiangwu Hall for further training, many of them were at the middle and lower levels of each army.

Outstanding officers and soldiers, after studying and training in the martial arts hall for more than half a year.

Their tactical command capabilities and individual combat capabilities have been greatly improved. Such people are perfect for forming guard companies and reconnaissance companies.

Of course, among these trainees, those who had higher official positions before entering school were sent by Zhang Xinghan with great care to serve as battalion and company commanders in various regiments, instead of remaining in the above three directly affiliated troops.

As a time traveler, Zhang Xinghan fully understands the importance of mastering an elite lineage, which will be the final guarantee for him to settle down in the future.

Therefore, Zhang Xinghan will not leave those with higher military positions in the directly-affiliated troops such as the guard company under any circumstances. Let alone whether they are willing or not, even if they are willing to give in, Zhang Xinghan is still afraid that they will form small groups and pull them together.

In the end, the gangs gradually lost their command over the ** troops.

At this point, Zhang Xinghan basically had the city's defenders in his own hands. Overnight, the Shenyang City defenders completed their reorganization and were ready for a new battle.

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At the same time, the Japanese army was not idle either.

First, the cavalry regiment of the Second Division made a sneak attack at night and captured the important town of Xinmin, cutting off the last retreat route for the defenders in Shenyang City.

At the same time, under the strict orders of Seishiro Itagaki, the Japanese troops who had succeeded in attacking the towns along the South Manchuria Railway dispatched their main forces to assemble in the Shenyang area.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the attack on Shenyang, Ishihara Kanji even suggested to his good friends to postpone the attack on Changchun, transfer the imperial army that had entered Ji Province, and concentrate all efforts on attacking Shenyang.

However, Itagaki Seishiro believed that the troops attacking Kyrgyzstan had already arrived at Changchun City and would not be able to arrive for a while after returning, so he did not adopt Ishihara Kanji's suggestion.

Of course, the main reason was that Itagaki Seishiro believed that the troops he had assembled were sufficient and fully capable of the task of capturing Fengtian. There was no need to mobilize troops into Kyrgyzstan, which would delay the imperial army's original battle plan to capture Changchun.

To put it bluntly, he was greedy and wanted to bring the entire three eastern provinces into the territory of the Japanese Empire.

By nine o'clock in the morning, Japanese reinforcements from Yingkou and Siping areas had arrived one after another. By now, the number of Japanese troops gathered in the Sujiatun area had reached more than 9,000, and thousands more reinforcements were arriving from the direction of Dalian. .

Inside the frontline headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Sujiatun.

Itagaki Seishiro and Ishihara Wanji are worried about one thing, that is, they just received a report from the reconnaissance unit. The elite Northeast Army who retreated from Beidaying to Dongshanzuizi attacked Dongshanzuizi, where the 7th Brigade suddenly left, and marched in the direction of Xinmin. And go.

"Ishihara-kun, what do you think we should do? Should we attack Wang Yizhe's 7th Brigade with all our strength or let them go and continue attacking Shenyang City." Itagaki Seishiro couldn't make up his mind for a while, and suddenly raised his head and looked at Ishihara, who had been thinking for a long time. smiled and asked.

Facing Itagaki Seishiro's gaze, Ishihara smiled slightly and said: "As far as I know, Zhang Xueliang was kind to Wang Yizhe. It is impossible for Wang Yizhe to disobey Zhang Xueliang's retreat order. In this way, if we resolutely block Xinmin, Then Wang Yizhe would have an excuse to start a war, and he would definitely launch a fierce attack on Xinmin in order to break through our army's tight encirclement and retreat towards Jinzhou.

You must know that Wang Yizhe's **7th Brigade is the elite elite unit of the Northeast Army. It has a large number of troops. If we send fewer troops, we may not be able to defeat it. If we attack with all our strength, what if the Chinese Army in the city takes the opportunity to attack and fight with Wang Yizhe? If our troops attack our army from two sides, the consequences will be disastrous."

"What do Ishihara-kun mean?" Itagaki Seishiro asked uncertainly.

"Let Wang Yizhe evacuate smoothly and concentrate all the troops to seize Shenyang City." Ishihara Wan'er said sharply: "Wang Yizhe has no intention of resisting in his heart. He is bent on retreating. If we stop him, he will fight tooth and nail. If we let him pass, Shenyang City will be destroyed." It will be completely turned into a dead land and will definitely become a prey for the imperial army."

"Yo Xi, I'll do as you say." Itagaki Seishiro nodded in sudden realization.

PS: Today I was decorating the doors and windows at home. I helped to do it for a long time. It was hot and tired. I only waited until the family and children went to bed at night before Qiu Feng took the time to code out a chapter. Fortunately, I coded it out and there will be no interruption in updating today.
Chapter completed!